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This post is more about the confusion that may arise around SPNs for setting up Kerberos authentication in IIS 7.0. IIS 7.0 has a new Kernel-mode authentication feature using which the ticket for the requested service is decrypted using Machine account...

In general, a 500.19 error happens due to invalid configuration data. The IIS configuration system will almost always point to the source of the problem. At the same time, sometimes it is important to examine the “Error Code” field which symbolizes the...

We’ve seen a few instances of the following error message on 64 bit servers when IIS 7.0 is attempting to process a pending certificate request: Complete Certificate Request There was an error while performing this operation. Details: CertEnroll...

After sending an HTTP request to an IIS server, an HTTP client (such as Internet Explorer) may display the following type of error message in the browser window: If Internet Explorer’s Friendly HTTP Error Messages option is turned off,...

What is ASP.NET Session? A session is defined as the period of time a unique user interacts with a particular web application. HTTP is a stateless protocol, in the sense that a Web server is concerned only with the current HTTP request for any given Web...

When the ASP.NET AJAX Functionality is not working on a web page, it is usually due to the fact that the javascript needed for AJAX is not sent to the client from the server for some reason. ‘Sys’ is undefined. You might see this error message when there...

Procdump is a light weight Sysinternal's command-line utility whose primary purpose is monitoring an application for CPU spikes and generating crash dumps during such spikes which an administrator or developer can use to determine the cause or to share...

When hosting an ASP.net web application on IIS7, and you have the application running in integrated pipeline mode, you may find that users complain that the application performs slowly. This may occur if your website is busy, handling 12 or more requests...

I had another interesting customer issue this week, where in uploading a file using the FileUpload control was failing only with IE8 . As you would do with any client-side issue, I started by collecting Fiddler traces for both the working (IE7) and non...

Introduction The purpose of this blog post is to discuss how to mask an IIS server’s IP address from being sent as part of an HTTP response. By default, IIS can send a server’s IP address in the Content-Location or Location response headers of a response...

Web server Administrators have been using the Debug Diagnostic 1.1 to troubleshoot crash\hang issues on IIS 5 and 6. The Debug Diagnostic tool needs no introduction. It is a great tool and it provides you a lot of flexibility in collecting crash dumps...

I was recently working on a reporting web application that uses the Report Viewer ( ReportViewer ) control that ships with SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS). The Report Viewer control was rendering perfectly when I was developing using Visual Studio...

This post briefly discusses the new configuration auditing functionality to trace the changes done to the IIS configuration store. This is similar to the Metabase Auditing which was available in IIS 6.0 with SP1 on Windows 2003 Server; you can refer this...

Some common causes of OutOfMemoryExceptions in ASP.NET applications and information on how to resolve these exceptions.

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Passive FTP uses a range of ports to transfer data. This can be a problem because the port range that IIS uses has to be opened up at the Firewall. Many administrators would like to limit the port range between specific values so that they can have a...

Many things can cause a service, like IIS’s World Wide Web Publishing Service, to fail on startup. When troubleshooting such an issue, Process Monitor can be an invaluable tool. What Process Monitor does is monitor all File and Registry access on the...

In the last few days we have started seeing a new symptom appearing more and more often on IIS 6 servers. Here are the symptoms : You are running Windows 2003 Server and you have IIS 6 installed and hosting your web-sites. The operating system prompts...

Metabase.xml is the central store where IIS 6.0 stores most of its configuration information. Its a plain text file and stores all the information in a simple XML format. The XML format naturally raised a notion of being able to XCOPY the config file...

The maximum number of Application Pools that IIS 6 can host depends on a few different things, including (but not necessarily restricted to) the type(s) of content being served, the number of application pool running concurrently, and the identities of...

Special thanks to Sean Everhart for contributing this topic Internet Explorer 8.0 introduces a new method of interpreting and displaying the HTML data sent from web servers. In some cases, this can result in the web pages being displayed to users...

We've seen a few issues recently where customers were experiencing very slow async postbacks via an UpdatePanel, but only in Internet Explorer. Other browsers worked fine. (When I say "very slow", I mean in the neighborhood of 30 seconds!) The cause for...

Internet Information Services (IIS) 7.0 adds some significant new functionality to the manageability and customization of error messages. The three main areas of improvement when compared to IIS 6.0 are Custom vs. Detailed error pages, better configurability...

In this scenario, HTTP requests were being sent from a non-Windows machine and were being responded to with a “Bad Request – Invalid Hostname” error by the IIS server. Beginning in IIS 6.0, “Bad Request” errors are almost always returned by HTTP.sys,...

FTP 7.5 comes with new features like supporting Host headers (Virtual host) and SSL. For compatibility purposes, FTP clients can check whether the FTP server supports host headers by sending a FEAT command to check for supported features. An FTP server...

Recently, I came across an issue where the customer faced an FIPS (Federal Information Processing Standards) related error on the .aspx pages which had debug=”true”. His ASP.net application was hosted on IIS7 running on Windows Server 2008 SP2. And, he...